Bittoo Sharma (Ranveer Singh) is in his final year in college. He is your atypical hostelite and “Dilli Ka Chhora” – loads of attitude, lukkha, street smart, can hardly speak a word of English, but still thinks he is God’s gift to style and mankind in general. He is also quite sure that he would do anything but become a farmer like his father. He doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life in the sugarcane fields. Quite the popular one in college thanks to his effective contact base of the right people which helps them gate crash weddings quite frequently.
However, at one such wedding, he does get caught in the act by Shruti Kakkar (Anushka Sharma) who is assisting a small time wedding planner. Complete moo-phat (outspoken), she is smart enough to differentiate between an actual guest and a wedding crasher. Bittoo manages to wriggle himself out of the situation but is quite taken in by her charm. He spends the rest of the evening shooting the wedding which is primarily Madam Shruti doing her jhatkas. Our street smart hero is quick to find out relevant details that anyone would want to know. He introduces himself the next day to her under the pretext of giving her the recording of the previous nite. All he wants is “frandship” (read friendship – a la Dilli style). “Yeah right” says Shruti (smart woman I say). Not willing to give up with the snub, Bittoo uses his charm to break the ice. But when he realizes that Shruti is a ambitious 20 year old with a single minded focus to get into the wedding planning business, he loses interest as quickly as he gained it.
The twist in the tale happens when Bittoo’s father comes to collect him. Not wanting to go back to the sugar cane fields, he tells his father that he has decided to get into a partnership for a wedding planning business. Now that he has got himself into trouble, he has no other choice but to go back to Shruti and beg her to take him in. Shruti flatly refuses, but by a stroke of luck, Bittoo helps her get into an “internship” with the #1 wedding planner in Delhi. When things sour @ her internship, the 2 of them decide to go ahead with their partnership and form “Shaadi Mubarak” along with a florist Maqsood Bhai (Neeraj Sood), a caterer Rajinder Singh (Manmeet Singh) and a DJ – Santy (Revant Shergill).
BBB is a nice movie. Not technically perfect. Several inconsistencies. But leaves you feeling “nice”. Director Maneesh Sharma’s first full directorial attempt seems to be a very sincere one. His previous movies were as asst. director on YRFs Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi & Fanaa. Guess it helped. Anushka Sharma is lively and continues to have the best smile that this industry has. But tends to overact just a bit more than required. Our debutante, Ranveer Singh is not one to be written off. He has done just about enough to make the cut. Could do with a good shave every now and then. But I believe there is potential there. Lastly, the music makes BBB even more enjoyable. Avaiyen Avaiyen is going to be doing its rounds for some time. Salim Sulieman has done a great job with it and so has Vaibhavi Merchant with the choreography.
This is wrtier Habib Faisal's 2nd movie that i have reviewed this year, the previous one being Do Dooni Chaar. Both of them based in Delhi. Both of them being well written. Solid future prospect. Also, the movement of movies to a background of Delhi seems to be catching up. This year has seen at least 3 such movies now. Do Dooni Chaar, Aisha and not BBB. Maybe more but I cant remember them off hand. Good to see that. Overall, a decent movie to watch. Much better than what I expected. 5.5 on 10.
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